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J. E. WARD.

GAR. APPLICATION FILED DBO.29,`19'09.

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JOHN E. WARD, OF NEVI YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WARD EQUIPMENT COMPANY,OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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stima Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. a, i910.

Application led December 29, 1909. Serial No. 535,484.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Jol-IN E. WARD, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Manhattan, of the city of New York, in thecounty and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cars, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof,

The general object of the invention is to improve the construction ofthe roofs of railway cars and particularly the portions of the rootswhich are employed tor ventilating and lighting purposes. Railway cars,as constructed at the present time, are provided with upwardlyprojecting tops or roofs, the sides of which are substantially verticaland are supplied with Ventilating means and generally with ventilatingand lighting means. In many constructions, however, the ventilatingmeans are either constructed or arranged as to completely obscure all ofthe light which might otherwise enter the car through the root, or areprovided with screens through which the light may primarily enter butwhich soon become clogged up with cinders and soot whereby they arerendered practically opaque to the passage of light. And in cases wherethe root was paneled oft and a ventilator fitted into each panel, nolighting openings were provided in the panels.

In accordance with the present improvements, the cars are arranged to belighted as well as ventilated from the roof without any of theaforementioned objections, and the paneled roof is arranged to have aventilator and one or more windows in each panel, the improvementsthereby not only increasing the lighting effect but enhancing theattractiveness of the roof design as well.

Referring to the drawings in which a sufficient portion ot a railway carhas been shown to enable the improvements to be understood, Figure l isa view in side elevation of a portion of the root of a railway car, and,Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views taken respectively upon the planesindicated by the lines 2 2 and 3--3 in Fig. l.

From Figs. 2 and 8, it will be seen that the roof projects from the topof the car in the usual manner and is provided with double vertical sidewalls a and b, the side walls a containing the drop sashes and the sidewalls constituting the outer or exterior portion of the roof to whichthe ventilators c are secured.

From Fig. 1 it will be seen that the eX- terior vertical sides of theroot b are divided into a plurality of panels which, as will beunderstood, extend along the car from end to end on each side thereof,and it will also be seen that each of these panels substantiallyregisters with the corresponding drop sash which is arranged directlybehind it, the dotted lines in Fig. l clearly showing the position ofthe drop sash.

In the present case a Ventilating opening CZ is arranged in the centerof each panel, and, as shown in the drawings, each opening is covered byany suitable Jform of ventilator, as c. The ends of each panel areprovided with windows e through which it will always be possible i'orthe light to How and which cannot become clogged with dirt and cindersas in the case of a screen. It will be obvious, of course, that thewindows and Ventilating opening might be differently arranged in eachpanel, although the arrangement shown in the drawing gives a pleasingdesign.

It will thus be seen that light and air will both be delivered to eachsection to which corresponds a drop sash, the sash thus obviouslycontrolling the air delivered through the ventilator and also, it it bemade opaque, the amount of light delivered through the correspondingsection of the root. Generally speaking, the sash will be provided withwindows, as shown, so as to let the light through at all times. It willbe seen also that the improved construction makes an attractive designfor the root of a car.

I claim as my invention:

l. In a railway car, the combination with the roof, of a movable sashtherein, a panel in the roof registering substantially with the movablesash and containing a Ventilating opening and a window anda Ventilatinghood projecting outwardly from the panel and located over thel openingin the same, said hood open from below.

2. In a railway car, the combination with the root, of a plurality oi'drop sashes arranged therein, a ventilator centrally arranged withrespect to each drop sash, and a window on each side of the ventilatorand in front of the corresponding ends ot the drop sash.

31 In a railway car, the combination with the roof, of a plurality ofdrop sashes arranged along the sides thereof, and a plurality ofventilators one arranged in front of the central portion of each dropsash, and a window arranged in front of each end portion of the dropsashes and on each side of the ventilators.

4. In a railway car, the combination with an upwardly projecting roof,of a plurality of movable sashes arranged therein, and a plurality ofpanels extending along the sides thereof, there being a panelcorresponding to each movable sash, a ventilator centrally arranged withrespect to each panel, and a window in each end of each panel.

5. In a railway oar, the combination with the roof, of a panel having aVentilating opening, movable sash or sashes capable of being positionedso as to permit the air which passes the Ventilating opening to enterthe car at one time and capable ot' being positioned so that the airwhich passes the Ventilating opening cannot enter the car at anothertime, and a Ventilating hood over the Ventilating opening, Said hoodopen on the lower side.

This specification signed and witnessed this 23rd day of December, A. D.1909.

l JOHN E. WARD.

Signed in the presence ot'- Gr. MCGRANN, LUCIUs E. VARNEY.

